# ☁️ Garret Meier

> Staff Software Engineer at Pavilion

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/garret

I’m a Software Engineer, comfortable across the stack. I have experience building products from idea through implementation and designing the infrastructure, backend, and frontend to support them.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Pavilion
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pavilion
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Culture Biosciences
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
* Designed system for controlling Bioreactors remotely
* Implemented initial system health alerting
* Improved team-wide project process
* Onboarded and mentored new engineers

### Senior Software Engineer @ Mixmax
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Built Salesforce synchronization integration handling hundreds of millions of updates daily.
* Lead project to migrate a monolithic module to microservices.
* Implemented real-time chat sidebar and improved performance to handle 10's of thousands of concurrent connections.
* Ran on call and managed system observability metrics.

### Software Engineer @ Mixmax
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Built and deployed scalable metrics-capturing infrastructure with Terraform.
* Scaled event processing infrastructure from 1000s to millions of events per minute capacity.
* Created third-party integrations and "if-this-then-that" style product.

### Coach @ Major League Hacking
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Traveled to college hackathons to advise event organizers and mentor attendees.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Uber
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
* Managed service for 2fa notifications
* Built Go system to send texts, notifications, and emails to customers.

### Engineering Fellow @ Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016

### Backend Engineer @ Pitchly
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Des Moines, Iowa
* Build microservice to export customer data to powerpoints
* Refactored PHP backend to use javascript.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Bunchball
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Des Moines, IA
* Optimized server start times, reducing them by 50%
* Implemented new database provisioning scripts
* Built a social graph datastore and API from relational data

### Founder and Software Developer @ Square Infinity Technologies
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Billings, Montana

### Founder @ Gifasent
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Ames, Iowa

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Iowa State University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Ames, IA


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree with Honors in Software Engineering
Iowa State University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### High School Diploma
Billings West High School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ghmeier
- Website: http://garretmeier.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/ghmeier

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Source: https://flows.cv/garret
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/garret/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22